A referee has made a terrible mistake. We cannot undo that - an undeserving player is in a situation which should not have happened.

Gatored got wrongly seeded into the tournament bracket as the #1 seed instead of DRG who received the #2 player's seed in the bracket. As a result, the two players were placed in the wrong part of the bracket and TT1 played a player he was not supposed to. Unfortunately the error was discovered during the match and not before. The result cannot stand.

I deeply regret that such a mistake happened at such a time, but we cannot undo it. We canceled the match and fixed the bracket layout. Nothing else could be done.

All I can do right now on my behalf and on behalf of the referee is apologise to the players involved in the match, their teams and the fans that followed the match. This should not have happened and I will do everything for this to never happen again.

I regret this has happened and I apologise.

Michał "Carmac" Blicharz
P.S. TT1 will receive prize money for placing top 4 regardless of his result in the replayed quarterfinal.

You beat TOP 3-0, in the semi-finals, how do you feel?

Really good because TOP is a Code S level Terran, and he was a finalist last season, so beating him is a big accomplishment - Especially in a lan setting, so I feel raelly good.

You were defeatd 3-0 by TT1 last night, and then told the brackets were wrong. How did you feel when you heard you had a second chance against TOP?

PvP is my worst match-up, so losing to TT1 was expected because he has pretty good PvP. After finding out I was back in, I was like 'wow, this is happening?' It was pretty unreal, I dont think this has happened before in a major touranment, so it was pretty nice. PvT is my best matchup, so even though Koreans are very good I still felt more confident against him.

So, walk us through the games.

Game one was a macro game on Tal'Darim, where I went quick double forge and he went for three rax expand. I won the big fight in the middle pretty easily because I had the better upgrades from double forge.
Game two I knew what he would do because he played MaNa on that map, and he did the same marine-hellion elevator into 1/1/1 build. I held off the drop pretty easily, and the 1/1/1 transition too.
The last game I four gated, and I knew it would work because his build didn't have enough marines, even though he had two bunkers.


Your next opponent is FruitDealer, how do you feel going into that matchup? Were you impressed with his play against TSL_Killer yesterday?

My PvZ is not as good as my PvT, but it's still a pretty good matchup of mine. I like to forge FE and he likes to punish that, so we'll see how that goes. I thought he played really well vs Killer, but I don't think Killer played it right. I think I can beat him.


Assuming you make it through to the finals, who would you like to face from the other side of the bracket?

I want to face elfi, even tho ughit's a pvp, because he's not confident in the matchup and I know his style, so I think I can beat him.


There's been a lot talk about how Americans are bad, but they've been doing really well in this tournament?

I think the Americans are the worst out of EU/KR/NA because they don't put in the practice or the effort. But I've put in a lot of practice for this tournament, so I think I deserve to be I am in this tournament.

The last month I've been practicing a lot on the KR server and I feel like I've gotten a lot better because of it. In the two weeks leading up to this tournament, I practiced about eight hours or so a day. If I wouldn't have practiced so much on KR, I don't think I would have gotten this far.

Maybe if they had teamhosues in the US and they put in more effort, they'd do better

So, what are your tournament plans for the rest of the year?

I'll be competing at MLG Providence. I've taken a semester off school right now, and we'll see how things go in the upcoming months. If things go well, maybe I'll keep focusing on gaming, we'll see.
school.

Alright, thanks for the interview. Any shoutouts?

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